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Why We Keep Playing the Lottery?
To grasp how unlikely it was for Gloria C. MacKenzie, an 84-year-old Florida widow, to have won the $590 million Powerball lottery in May, Robert Williams, a professor of health sciences at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, offers this scenario: head down to your local convenience store, slap $2 on the counter, and fill out a six-numbered Powerball ticket. It will take you about 10 seconds.
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As the saying goes... The lottery is a tax on the "mathematically challenged"
Yeah and its also a good way for the gov to bring in a buttload of extra cash every draw